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VBA, a Germantown firm specializing in cloud-based health benefits software, secured a $156 million private-equity investment led by Spectrum Equity of Boston to fund the suburban Milwaukee firm’s growth. The sizable capital infusion will enable VBA to meet demand for...

Inc. magazine listed Whitewater-based RoofMarketplace number 217 on its annual list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful independent small business companies in the United States....

After two years of serving as the executive director at 100state, Joseph Dahari announced that he has stepped down from the coworking space, effective Aug. 11. JJ Pagac, who oversaw membership, is the new executive director. “I’m excited to take on the role,” Pagac...

Rapid Radicals was the winner of the 2022 Governor's Business Plan Contest.  Rapid Radicals, a company providing innovative, high-rate wastewater treatment, launched its pilot wastewater treatment system on Thursday, August 10 at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not recyclable using conventional mechanical recycling...

Milwaukee-based startup Rapid Radicals has reached the next milestone in commercializing its proprietary wastewater treatment technology. The company has created a decentralized wastewater treatment system that can treat water in less than 30 minutes – 16 times faster...

Stoves, washing machines and scrap material. These are a few of the things Evan Rinke has pulled out of rivers that flow into Lake Michigan. This is Rinke's first summer operating a marine debris boat, which is used to pick up trash along Lake Michigan’s shoreline....

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with David Noyce, executive associate dean and Arthur F. Hawnn Professor at UW-Madison’s College of Engineering. Noyce is also the executive director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory and the Wisconsin...

Nearly Two-Thirds of Total Businesses in the Health Care and Social Assistance Sector are Women-Owned In this month’s data snapshot, we explore the landscape of women-owned businesses in Wisconsin. To calculate sector shares, we utilize both employer and nonemployer...

Milwaukee-based artificial intelligence startup Golgix announced this week it has closed a $600,000 seed funding round led by Milwaukee-based venture capital firm Gateway Capital. The company also received a $200,000 investment from the Idea Fund of La Crosse. Golgix...

The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) approved two Alliant Energy battery energy storage projects totaling 175 megawatts (MW). The approval clears the way for construction to begin on the 100-MW Grant County Battery Project and 75-MW Wood County Battery...

With entrepreneurship comes risk. It’s because of this risk that startup founders often find themselves in the conundrum of needing funding to support their work or research, but not having enough evidence to prove their idea is profitable in order to garner an...

A Louisville, Kentucky-based startup built on managing the financial health of other startups has improved its own with help from Mequon-based investor Capital Midwest Fund. Forecastr, a business-to-business, software-as-a-service company, has raised $4.5 million in...

Atomix Logistics, has seen tremendous growth in the past year – and there’s even more to come. The company, which provides creative fulfillment solutions for its 125 ecommerce partners, recently relocated to Cudahy. Founder and CEO Austin Kreinz was very thoughtful...

Several developments are taking shape on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought delays to some construction projects. Even as Republicans in the Legislature declined to provide money for a new engineering facility in the...

The head of the American Nuclear Society is congratulating Janesville-based SHINE Technologies for achieving a “milestone moment” in developing fusion technology. The company yesterday announced it has demonstrated visible Cherenkov radiation produced by fusion “for...

SHINE Technologies LLC, a next-generation fusion technology company, announced Aug. 3 it has demonstrated clearly visible Cherenkov radiation produced by fusion for what is believed to be the first time in history. Historically, fusion has been demonstrated and...